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Did they include details on the effects on LDL cholesterol and blood pressure?

It seems like most time-restricted diets have negative cardiovascular effects.

Would you mind elaborating? I've been intermittent fasting daily for years now and while I'm generally in good health my physician has advised me to lower my LDL cholesterol which is far too high. I've been attributing this high LDL to a large amount of eggs and cheese in my diet, but if there are other potential factors contributing to my high LDL I'm all ears.

The research generally shows consistent correlation between the number of meals eaten per day and good cardiovascular biomarkers like LDL and blood pressure, with a single meal per day being the worst.

For example: https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article/67/10/591/...

But for overall health, the results are more mixed.

This line stands out to me though: "Nevertheless, it should be noted that the sodium content of the study diets may have confounded these findings."

Ya think? Really? May have? We are going to study diet on blood pressure but not control for sodium.

I would have a hard time seeing the mechanism that one meal of oats and chicken breast vs 4 meals of oats and chicken breast with same daily calories is going to have much effect on anything.

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